Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Mortimer

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'

Fiona Apple

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

The bottom line is that, with employment and income gains picking up, it will take mortgage rates a lot higher than 6.24 percent to choke off housing demand. We will probably get to a level of rates that bites eventually, but certainly not in the next few months.

Brad Miller

A lot of people wrote us off. As quick as you can get up, things can bite you in the butt. But it feels good to get back in there. It's still about pushing, seeing how high we can go.

This can reduce response time tremendously. It gives them more bites at the apple.

They were giving us opportunity after opportunity in the second period. We just really needed to bury one of those chances, but we didn't. More often than not, when stuff like that happens, it comes back to bite you.

Dave Carter

Americans are increasingly discovering a direct connection between the quality of their diet and the quality of their life. The growing interest in high quality food is enticing more consumers to take their first bite of deliciously healthy bison meat.

Robert Parker

They have been over the last few years, compared to other competitors like Philips, slow to restructure. Now they're having to bite the bullet.

Billy Wagner

They do. If you give up nothing for a while, when they do come, they'll come in bunches and bite you.

They do have a propensity for inflicting very serious bites if they do bite.

They are taking big bites of market share out of the sneakers. The sneaker business is a mature business that represents primarily a replacement mode. People mainly buy sneakers when the old ones wear out.

There is way too much fear about spiders, ... As far as a health risk, spider bites are way down the list.

Nick Saban

There's an old saying, ... If a rattlesnake bites itself, it still dies.

We did a test with a resident who was on a pureed food diet. At first, he wouldn't take a bite because he said he couldn't eat regular food.

When mosquitoes work, they bite and then they sing

Bennie Thompson

The president has talked about small businesses being the engine of our economy, but when the time for sound bites is over his administration still uses the same backroom deals to take care of their friends,

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.

This will be unique downtown -- a place for people to meet and grab a bite before going to bars.

At Northwest, Wade dominated some good hitters. He didn't have his usual zip on the fastball or the bite on his curve tonight, but the really good players still find a way.

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James Marsters

It was a lot harder, but I think we got something that was maybe fresher than just watching somebody strut around and bite people.

Larry Parrish

It was another tough one to lose. We had a lot of chances tonight to blow the game open but we never could get a big hit. It came back to bite us.

Chris Hadfield

The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you're lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you, remember, before you land, stop talking so you don't bite your tongue off.

The thing about Miami, they don't bite their tongues down here. If they're not satisfied with what's going on . . . they let you know it.

George Vecsey

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

Mitch Hedberg

I snake bite emergency kit is a body bag.

We're not overlooking anyone. If you underestimate teams, that's when they come back and bite you in the butt. That's when you lose and that's when you get upset. They're going to be a good team.

We are starting to see the bite from some of the risks that have been lurking in the background, like oil. I think it's going to continue to be tougher for this market to do anything positive.

We feel this would be like a universal AARP card, but something with a bite to it.

We see a shortage of IT workers and think we'll meet our needs by importing foreign workers. But we don't bite the bullet to make the changes we need to make here in the U.S..

Very, very disrespectful. What's the point? Is it going to make you feel better in the morning to know you got another three? Something like that always comes back to bite the person.

Jim Thompson

You give it up by not staying on top of it, growing it and by not being competitive, or you simply give up. We didn't lose the businesses. We gave them up. These people are willing to come in, bite the bullet and do whatever's necessary to get the business up to where it's successful. They understand the rewards for what they do.

It's really a big fish technique, and I was fortunate to catch five of them. It's mostly an early bite and the lure is key.